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Friday, 3 May 2013

FCT Minister Sets To Ban Mini Bus In Abuja

Bala Muhammed (FCT Minister)

The FCT has unfolded plans to re-launched its Transport
policy suspended January this year following the protest against the exercise
by the mini bus commercial drivers

The FCT Minister Senator Bala Mohammed said there
is no going back on the earlier ban on the operation of mini-buses
in the nation's capital city after due consultations with all stakeholders in
the Transport sector.

The Minister who was represented by the Secretary
in Charge of Transport Secretariat of the FCTA, Engineer Jonathan Ivoke told
newsmen in Abuja yesterday that the policy would finally take off on the 3rd
June, 2013.

The Abuja council of the NUJ, represented by its
chairman, comrade, Chuks Ehirim, the representatives of the NLC, TUC, the leadership
of the National Union of Road Transport Workers and Self Employed Commercial
Drivers and Association (SECDA) who attended the Press briefing declared their support for the implementation of
the policy.

The ban
on the operation of mini-buses in Abuja generated public outcry and protest
from members of Self Employed Commercial Drivers and Association (SECDA) in
January when it was first introduced.